Screen Actors Guild Awards 2001
The 7th US Screen Actors Guild Awards , which the Screen Actors Guild presents each year in the areas of film (5 categories) and television (8 categories), took place on March 11, 2001 at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center . In contrast to the Golden Globe Award , for example, the so-called SAG Awards only honor film, television and ensemble actors and are a yardstick for the upcoming Oscar awards. The winners are chosen by the members of the Screen Actors Guild, which one must belong to to work as an actor in the United States .
The nominees were announced on January 30, 2001 at Los Angeles' Pacific Design Center's Silver Screen Theater by actors Lucy Liu and Cary Elwes . In the United States, the award ceremony was shown live on cable broadcaster TNT .
The American actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee were honored for their life's work .
Film winners and nominees
Best Actor
Benicio del Toro - Traffic - Power of the Cartel (Traffic)
- Jamie Bell - Billy Elliot - I Will Dance (Billy Elliot)
- Russell Crowe - gladiator
- Tom Hanks - Cast Away - Lost (Castaway)
- Geoffrey Rush - Quills - Power of Obsession (Quills)
Best main actress
Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich
- Joan Allen - Character Assassination - Beyond Morality (The Contender)
- Juliette Binoche - Chocolat - A small bite is enough (Chocolat)
- Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream
- Laura Linney - You Can Count on Me
Best supporting actor
Albert Finney - Erin Brockovich
- Jeff Bridges - Character Assassination - Beyond Morality (The Contender)
- Willem Dafoe - Shadow of the Vampire
- Gary Oldman - Character Assassination - Beyond Morals (The Contender)
- Joaquin Phoenix - gladiator
The best supporting actress
Judi Dench - Chocolat - A small bite is enough (Chocolat)
- Kate Hudson - Almost Famous - Almost Famous
- Frances McDormand - Almost Famous - Almost Famous
- Julie Walters - Billy Elliot - I Will Dance (Billy Elliot)
- Kate Winslet - Quills - power of obsession (Quills)
Best acting ensemble
Benjamin Bratt , James Brolin , Don Cheadle , Erika Christensen , Clifton Collins junior , Benicio del Toro , Michael Douglas , Albert Finney , Topher Grace , Amy Irving , Dennis Quaid and Catherine Zeta-Jones - Traffic - Power of the cartel (Traffic)
- Fairuza Balk , Billy Crudup , Patrick Fugit , Philip Seymour Hoffman , Kate Hudson , Jason Lee , Frances McDormand , Anna Paquin and Noah Taylor - Almost Famous - Almost Famous
- Jamie Bell , Jamie Draven , Gary Lewis and Julie Walters - Billy Elliot - I Will Dance (Billy Elliot)
- Juliette Binoche , Leslie Caron , Judi Dench , Johnny Depp , Alfred Molina , Carrie-Anne Moss , Hugh O'Conor , Lena Olin , Peter Stormare and John Wood - Chocolat - One small bite is enough (Chocolat)
- Russell Crowe , Richard Harris , Djimon Hounsou , Derek Jacobi , Connie Nielsen , Joaquin Phoenix and Oliver Reed (posthumously) - Gladiator
Television winners and nominees
Best Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries
Brian Dennehy - Death of a Salesman (Death of a Salesman)
- Alec Baldwin - Nuremberg - In the Name of Humanity (Nuremberg)
- Brian Cox - Nürnberg - In the Name of Humanity (Nuremberg)
- Danny Glover - Freedom March (Freedom Song)
- John Lithgow - Don Quixote (Don Quixote)
- James Woods - Dirty Pictures
Best Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries
Vanessa Redgrave - Women Love Women (If These Walls Could Talk 2)
- Stockard Channing - Painful Truth (The Truth About Jane)
- Judi Dench - The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (The Last of the Blonde Bombshells)
- Sally Field - David Copperfield
- Elizabeth Franz - Death of a Salesman (Death of a Salesman)
Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama
Martin Sheen - The West Wing - In the Center of Power (The West Wing)
- Timothy Daly - The Fugitive (The Fugitive)
- Anthony Edwards - Emergency Room - The Emergency Room (ER)
- Dennis Franz - New York Cops - NYPD Blue (NYPD Blue)
- James Gandolfini - The Sopranos (The Sopranos)
Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama
Allison Janney - The West Wing - In the Center of Power (The West Wing)
- Gillian Anderson - The X-Files - The FBI's Creepy Cases (The X-Files)
- Edie Falco - The Sopranos (The Sopranos)
- Sally Field - Emergency Room - The Emergency Room (ER)
- Lauren Graham - Gilmore Girls
- Sela Ward - Once and Again (Once and Again)
Best Actor in a Television Series - Comedy
Robert Downey junior - Ally McBeal
- Sean Hayes - Will & Grace
- Kelsey Grammer - Frasier
- Peter MacNicol - Ally McBeal
- David Hyde Pierce - Frasier
Best Actress in a Television Series - Comedy
Sarah Jessica Parker - Sex and the City
- Calista Flockhart - Ally McBeal
- Jane Kaczmarek - Malcolm in the Middle (Malcolm in the Middle)
- Debra Messing - Will & Grace
- Megan Mullally - Will & Grace
Best Acting Company - Drama
Dulé Hill , Allison Janney , Moira Kelly , Rob Lowe , Janel Moloney , Richard Schiff , Martin Sheen , John Spencer and Bradley Whitford - The West Wing - In the Center of Power (The West Wing)
- Anthony Edwards , Laura Innes , Alex Kingston , Eriq La Salle , Julianna Margulies , Kellie Martin , Paul McCrane , Michael Michele , Ming-Na Wen , Erik Palladino , Maura Tierney , Goran Višnjić and Noah Wyle - Emergency Room - Die Notaufnahme (ER)
- Angie Harmon , Steven Hill , Jesse L. Martin , S. Epatha Merkerson , Jerry Orbach , Sam Waterston and Dianne Wiest - Law & Order
- Michael Badalucco , Lara Flynn Boyle , Lisa Gay Hamilton , Steve Harris , Jason Kravits , Camryn Manheim , Dylan McDermott , Marla Sokoloff and Kelli Williams - Practice - Die Anwälte (The Practice)
- Lorraine Bracco , Dominic Chianese , Drea de Matteo , Edie Falco , James Gandolfini , Robert Iler , Michael Imperioli , Nancy Marchand , Vincent Pastore , David Proval , Jamie-Lynn Sigler , Tony Sirico , Aida Turturro and Steven Van Zandt - The Sopranos (The Sopranos)
Best Acting Company - Comedy
Sean Hayes , Eric McCormack , Debra Messing and Megan Mullally - Will & Grace
- Lisa Nicole Carson , Portia de Rossi , Robert Downey junior , Calista Flockhart , Greg Germann , Jane Krakowski , James LeGros , Lucy Liu , Peter MacNicol and Vonda Shepard - Ally McBeal
- Peri Gilpin , Kelsey Grammer , Jane Leeves , John Mahoney and David Hyde Pierce - Frasier
- Jennifer Aniston , Courteney Cox , Lisa Kudrow , Matt LeBlanc , Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer - Friends
- Kim Cattrall , Kristin Davis , Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Jessica Parker - Sex and the City
Lifetime achievement award
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Nominations Announced for the 7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® . In: SAGAwards.org . January 30, 2001. Archived from the original on February 2, 2001. Retrieved January 27, 2015.